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  1. Who got that cash?

    The humble British garden is the subject of a new three-year research project by Kent University researchers. Entitled "The Ethnobotany of British Home Gardens: Diversity, Knowledge and Exchange",...

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  2. Fixed-term posts still the norm for researchers

    UCU condemns 'unacceptable underbelly' of UK higher education. Melanie Newman reports. Just 3.5 per cent of research jobs currently advertised by universities are permanent positions, the University...

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  3. Elimination technique

    Yes, do come in, Mr Gunnell. Welcome to the University of Poppleton. Please take a seat. Let me begin the proceedings by introducing the appointments committee. My name is Jamie Targett, director of...

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  4. Tim Birkhead

    In 1973 Konrad Lorenz won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his pioneering studies of animal behaviour. His contribution was the study of "imprinting", epitomised by images of himself closely followed...

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  5. Leader: Thumping tubs and other issues of governance

    "Each tub on its own bottom" is the stout metaphor Harvard employs to proclaim its faculties' constitutional independence. The tubs did for former president Larry Summers. Their equivalents in Oxford...

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  6. Oxford v-c to go but reform still on the agenda

    Hefce continues to press for governance modernisation as John Hood reveals that he will not renew term after 2009. Melanie Newman reports. John Hood's decision to leave his post as Oxford University...

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  7. A model to be followed 2

    The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam

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